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While it's a cool tool, what exactly was the (commercial) potential Keybase had? I could never tell.
Secure filesharing and chat, for starters. Secure digital wallets tied to identity. It was a wallet platform I'd actually be interested in.
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They do keep saying "multiplatform", but I guess that's Windows/macOS/iOS/Android, not Linux. They're not the only ones though, this is what most companies call "on any device".
Zoom works great on Linux, it's a proper native app and the quality is excellent. Screensharing is notoriously tricky on Wayland and has been a shifting target that is just now starting to settle, I'm sure it'll eventually work.
And depends on iBus which breaks keyboard input for me.
The negativity here is astounding. This really comes down a company putting their money where their mouth is. Think about the reasons you'd decide to acquire Keybase. It certainly isn't for PR as most people have no idea what Keybase is. What we are seeing is that Zoom is truly concerned about how their security posture is hurting their business. Remember they aren't the only game in town and there are plenty of comp…
Should it not be? I love Keybase, I've been using it for a long time and it's such an important part of my daily workflow that I would be more than happy to be a paid subscriber. Now it's most likely gonna shut down. I find it hard to find any positivity in this.
For years people have been begging Keybase to allow them to pay them for the service and Chris Coyne always refused. Now they've lost their independence and they're owned by a communication company that has [edit: the majority of] its dev team in China. I use Keybase to talk to my friend in China since it's one of the few services they don't block. This is a pretty disappointing outcome.
The negativity here is astounding. This really comes down a company putting their money where their mouth is. Think about the reasons you'd decide to acquire Keybase. It certainly isn't for PR as most people have no idea what Keybase is. What we are seeing is that Zoom is truly concerned about how their security posture is hurting their business. Remember they aren't the only game in town and there are plenty of comp…
Best thing they could have done. They purchased expertise and a brand that is untarnished and loved in security circles.
It was just tarnished and unloved. Got notified this morning that I won't be able to access the public files of most of my 'security circle' on Keybase because they deleted their accounts.
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> communication company that has its entire dev team in China citation needed Also, what are you trying to imply by this assertion?
> Also, what are you trying to imply by this assertion? It's just casual nativism/racism - acceptable on HN as long as it's about China.
If China wants people to think of it as a country where laws matter, then they can start acting like laws matter.
https://worldjusticeproject.org/sites/default/files/document...
(And before we get whataboutism concerning {insert other country's wiretapping laws}, wiretapping through an independent judiciary is fundamentally different than via rubber stamp)
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> communication company that has its entire dev team in China citation needed Also, what are you trying to imply by this assertion?
> Also, what are you trying to imply by this assertion? It's just casual nativism/racism - acceptable on HN as long as it's about China.
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Keybase was dead as soon as they took VC money. Their original purpose — tying identities to keys — could have been a nice small non-profit. But there aren't fortunes to be made from managing GPG keys, so they had to pivot into shark jumping.
https://pgp.mit.edu/
See https://keys.openpgp.org/about for why.